Microsoft: Trust and Antitrust

Microsoft is in the news for two reasons today: the continuing saga of the antitrust cases, and Microsoft's public relations push for "trustworthy computing". A selection of links: Microsoft claims two months of code reviews and half-day seminars surpasses everything ever done by the open source community; Salon talks about the problems with a monoculture; SBC, an abusive telecom monopoly, complains about Microsoft's behavior, an abusive OS monopoly; and Microsoft responds, claiming that SBC is merely being self-serving.

Comments

Crying to mommy

[mckeowbc]

SBC: Mommy Microsoft is being bad
MS: No I'm not he is
Mommy (U.S. Government): You're both being bad, now go to your rooms.

hey michael

[cavemanf16]

We don't care. You're so hypocrytical. You want to maintain a monopoly on being able to bitch-slap everyday users who are posting a lot and contributing articles to your "news-links" website like we're playing some MUDD game. You guys have this policy of "oh we're so open source and FREE!" and yet you have a job solely because of the work of others. All you do is collate and staple together (sometimes quite poorly too) the work and reading done by others.

Yes, I have karma to burn because like your FAQ says, it's useless. And yes, I just finished moderating up a bunch of posts containing off-topic Katz bashes to his ultra-redundant and buzzword filled rant today. Haha!

Re:Hellz yeah!

[SkyLeach]

That was just plain mean moderator (-1). :P

Re:Quote from the article:

[crankyinmv]

I have a question for everyone.

When did the Mac stop sucking ?

I've developed applications from OS 6.x to 8.5, and most of the toolbox functionality was a joke.